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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort;
- Example: "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"
- Example: "a grueling campaign"
- Example: "hard labor"
- Example: "heavy work"
- Example: "heavy going"
- Example: "spent many laborious hours on the project"
- Example: "set a punishing pace"
[syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Operose \Op"er*ose`\ a. [L. operosus, fr. opera pains, labor, opus, operis, work, labor.] Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome. "Operose proceeding." --Burke. "A very operose calculation." --De Quincey. -- Op"er*ose`ly, adv. -- Op"er*ose`ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

operose adj 1: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

64 Moby Thesaurus words for "operose": Herculean, abstruse, arduous, assiduous, backbreaking, brutal, burdensome, complex, critical, crushing, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, diligent, effortful, elaborate, exacting, forced, formidable, grueling, hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hefty, industrious, intricate, jawbreaking, killing, knotted, knotty, labored, laborious, mean, no picnic, not easy, onerous, oppressive, painful, painstaking, punishing, rigorous, rough, rugged, sedulous, set with thorns, severe, spiny, steep, strained, strenuous, thorny, thorough, thoroughgoing, ticklish, toilsome, tough, tricky, troublesome, uphill, wearisome, wicked